Word: tuggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silent partner in the smuggling up the south China coast out of Hong Kong last year was the Japanese Navy. For approximately 34,000 Hong Kong dollars a month (U.S. $8,500) Japanese Navy agents granted smugglers the right to sneak into China one tug with as many barges as it could tow up the coast. Military supplies were forbidden but gasoline was permitted. A Japanese agent accompanied the tug to give the O.K. to any inquisitive warship of the Imperial Navy...
Last week the two-faced Japanese Janus seemed to be going two ways at once. A tug of war was going on between the fire-eating, Axis-loving generals of the Japanese Army and the go-slow civil Government engaged desperately in a last-minute buttering...
...right to appoint Spanish bishops (see p. 65). With this feather in its beret, Spain's one party, the Falange Española Tradicionalista, which has fought to make the Spanish Catholic Church, not Roman, but Spanish, next day won an even greater victory: success in the long tug of war between Spain's politicians and soldiers...
...infantry is still "Queen of Battles." But the Queen was hardly recognizable last week; she was scuttling around like a maid-of-all-work. In the incessant tug-o'-war for prestige within the Army, the cavalry, the field artillery, even the infantry were on the defensive. What had their wind up was the rapid growth, the ambitious airs of the air corps and the armored force. The Germans in conquered Europe, the British in Africa had shown what this new combat team could do-and what could happen to nations which had no team, or a poor...
...clock one night last week a long, dark green train standing in the Northern Pacific yards in Seattle quivered with the first tug of the engine, jolted a little as it gained speed, whistled as it raced toward the East. The Willkie Special was headed for home; the campaign tour that had led through the Southwest, up the Pacific Coast, was half over. The correspondents in the press lounge and the dining car, their stories already filed, argued over their Scotch & sodas-about the Third Term, the merits of Roosevelt and Willkie, the size and meaning of the crowds...